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‘Debris Notification’ Forces NASA to Reschedule Spacewalk
NASA had to reschedule a scheduled spacewalk to swap out faulty ISS comms after it received a ‘debris notification’. That debris now seems to pose no risk.
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Astronomers Spot Two Supermassive Black Holes on a Collision Course
Through a standard telescope, the nearby galaxy NGC 7727 looks like a gossamer tumbleweed drifting in the night sky. But within it are two supermassive black holes locked in a dance that will end with their violent merger. As a team of astronomers recently found, these objects are closer to Earth than any other supermassive…
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‘Vaccine’ Is Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Year
If it feels like news surrounding vaccines and its detractors have come to epitomise nearly all aspects of recent daily life, that’s because it kind of has according to some of the world’s top dictionaries.
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Can Technology Enhance Your Taste Buds?
People say weed makes things taste better. I never got that — all weed ever did for me was drain the world of joy or purpose and recast all my past interactions as testaments to my utter fraudulence. In any case, I mention the weed thing here to preempt any comments about weed. I am…